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Ballantine’s is part of a long tradition of grocery stores-cum-whiskey bottlers in Scotland, buying barrels from the distillery and bottling the whiskey for their customers. These independent bottlers served an important function in the Scotch market by buying and storing barrels when demand was low. Some of the bigger grocers amassed large stores of aging whiskey, creating a diverse palate from which to blend (and hiding a few gems in the bowels of their storehouses). Bottlers like Ballantine’s specialized in blending; others, in releasing rare casks of single malts from various distilleries. Ballantine’s 17 Year is a blended Scotch comprised of malt and grain whiskeys from various distilleries. Each is aged for at least 17 years before the whiskeys are blended together and bottled at 43% ABV.

BLENDED
COMPRISED OF BOTH SINGLE MALT(S) AND SINGLE GRAIN(S) OFTEN FROM MANY DIFFERENT DISTILLERIES; IF SCOTCH OR IRISH MUST BE AGED FOR AT LEAST THREE YEARS IN OAK BARRELS; IRISH MAY INCLUDE SINGLE POT STILL WHISKEY IN THE BLEND.

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